“Dark”, “natural”, “chic”, “nostalgic” how would you define this precious fiber with the name of “wool” which delights our hand and our knitting needles. You will be able to express your feelings about yarns and warm woolly clothes on the website http://www.fashionbyfeelings.com and be able to win woolly prizes.

Woolmark Company, the enterprise that designed the logo of virgin wool drawing inspiration from the shape of the Moebius, launched an on-line competition you can enter in two different ways.

Indeed you can upload on the website a photograph of you are wearing wooly clothes…what else?….and win a trip to Australia of the value of $ 12,000, which includes a a merino farm tour.

Otherwise, if you do not fancy to be seen by thousands of people browsing the site (for a trip to Australia I think that even the most reserved could face to show their image on-line) you can vote the look you like best. In this case you can win a variety of woolly items by EMU Australia for a value of $ 400.

I decided to go for both the options uploading the photographs of my Ellie’s Cowl and Wristwarmer and voting for a very “unconventional” knitted dress with a heart, not the sweety heart you draw on your diary but the organ showed as an intarsia knitting piece in a bright pink with the ventricles in orange on a black background.

What else would you expert form a crazy knitter? The minute after we decide to go on holiday, tickets in hand and here I am browsing on Ravelry looking for the address of the nicest or most typical yarn shop in the area to buy my lovely lovely balls of wool.

We were in Portugal this summer, amazing country! First town to visit Lisbon! Second day in this magi town and here I am at the Retrosaria of Rosa Pomar. A cute little shop with a nice and cozy atmosphere and loads of love for yarns and the passion of Rosa to communicate this love to kindred spirits.